"Steve Jobs, Bill Gates and Mark Zuckerberg didn't finish college. Too much emphasis is placed on formal education - I told my children not to worry ab...












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"Wit seduces by signaling intelligence without nerdiness.
"Academia is to knowledge what prostitution is to love; close enough on the surface but, to the nonsucker, not exactly the same thing
"They will envy you for your success, your wealth, for your intelligence, for your looks, for your status - but rarely for your wisdom.
"Just as no monkey is as good-looking as the ugliest of humans, no academic is worthier than the worst of the creators
"It has been more profitable for us to bind together in the wrong direction than to be alone in the right one. Those who have followed the assertive id...
"It took us a while to discover that we do effectively think, but that we more readily narrate backward in order to give ourselves the illusion of unde...
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